Graphic card problem?
ravencrow:
Weird. Ok so I'll reinstall the game and all the ep's?
After backing up. :)
I'll be back to let you know what happened. Looks up into the sky and shakes fist!
Thanks for your patience.
ravencrow:
Hi, my latest update.
Ok, I saved my game, renamed it and put it on my desktop.
I uninstalled my base game and all of my ep's. This is a further account of what happened...
~Installed my base game, started the game and everything looked great.
~In stalled University, started the game and what pops up? Newspaper heads, bah!
So I uninstalled it, and reinstalled that ep. The second installation looked fine.
~Installed Nightlife, everything looked ok.
~Installed OFB, started up game, and I got "newpaper" head simmies.
So uninstalled it, and installed it once again. Everything looked fine.
~ I got "Seasons" from the EA store, so I have to use the game installer from there.
I keeped getting error notices, so I deleted the EZ store installer, re-downloaded it, installed "Seasons" again, and everything looked fine.
~ I installed BV, started game, and got "newspaper head"!
So I uninstalled it, reinstalled it and started up game, still the same. Again I uninstalled, reinstalled that ep, but got "newpaper head".
Once again I uninstalled, reinstalled it twice after that. And I've still got "Newspaper head".
This took my all day yesterday, yet I'm back where I was. It was so close...
And I'm still up to any other suggestions. Thank you.
EDIT: I also kept getting an error through the reinstall. "Windows host process Rundll32 has stopped working."
jsalemi:
Try just replacing some of the BV files directly from the CD -- that usually clears up my problems with 'newspaper' whatevers (usually hair or clothes in my case). They're in the 'compressed.zip' archives on the CDs. You want to replace objects.package, and pretty much the whole 3D and Catalog directories. They're found under the \program files\ea games\the sims 2 bon voyage!\tsdata\res directory.
ETA: I'm sure someone mentioned this, but you have turned off your anti-virus while installing, right? I've been completely unable to get a clean FT install with the anti-virus (avast! in my case) still active. Even if it said the install was 'successful', some file would get corrupted and cause problems.
ravencrow:
Hi jsalemi,
Do I replace all the ep's 3d pkg, and nothing else, because I was just told to do that, and it didn't help. But I only did the last ep, "Bon Voyage".
With that, I just reinstalled the "objects folder", but you're saying to just replace the 3d one, am I correct?
Thanks for helping, I almost think it's my pc, since i got that "Windows host process Rundll32 has stopped working" pop-up.
jsalemi:
Yes, the whole 3D directory, and the Catalog directory just to be safe. That's usually cleared that up for me.
Quote from: ravencrow on 2008 April 01, 17:48:24
Thanks for helping, I almost think it's my pc, since i got that "Windows host process Rundll32 has stopped working" pop-up.
I did a quick google search, and that seems to be a very common Vista problem. I don't know if SP1 fixed it (no vista for me!), but I know getting rid of that mess and putting XP on your machine will fix it. :)
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